Weird Zebra Design
Becky AKA Weird Zebra is a media developer, imagineer and illustrator. Lover of digital surface pattern design and colour. Products include a great collection of colourful and fun postcards, perfect to send as 'happy post' (or stick them on your fridge or use as bookmarks etc...), stickers and notebooks. There's not enough caffeine to explain some of the designs or it could just be that sometimes her inner 7 year old likes to come out to play! Look out for all your favourite colours!
Website: www.weirdzebra.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/weirdzebradesign
Instagram: www.instagram.com/weirdzebra/
Website: www.weirdzebra.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/weirdzebradesign
Instagram: www.instagram.com/weirdzebra/
Interview With A Maker
Name/Business
Becky - Weird Zebra Design
Describe your art/craft?
Self-designed quirky, colourful digital graphics... available products include postcards, notebooks and stickers.
How long have you been creating? How did you learn your craft or were you self-taught?
It all began many years ago in the mid 70s with my mum buying Altair Designs colouring books for me and my sisters; being hugely jealous of my oldest sister Nicola's Super Spirograph set; making play food from plasticine; possibly wearing too tight bobbles on my bunches; being an avid sticker collector; and crazing my mum to buy more felt pens every time she went to Norwich!!
As for the digital side, I created my first digital image of a torso at college in 1990 on a Macintosh and was hooked... but didn't actually own a computer of my own until many years later. I started working at a local website company in 2006... with just 3 of us in the entire office I was literally the art department creating maps, adverts, logos, icons etc etc...
What are your favourite art/craft 'tools of the trade'?
It's got to be my Serif Drawplus program.... sadly Serif products are no longer supported so at some point I will have to make the transition to another program... and my ASUS laptop with a lovely big screen and Nvidia GeForce graphics card.
Where is your creative space?
Inside my noggin, where my inner 7-year-old likes to play.... plus anywhere I can work with my laptop!!
What do you watch or listen to when you're creating?
OMG I love a playlist, have a great one called 'Feel Good Songs'... just puts me in a total happy place. The happier I am the more colourful my designs. I might have been slightly over caffeinated the day I gave my cat postcards rainbows for eyes!!
What's your best selling product?
Sales of my Accommodation Icons literally paid my bills over one winter a few years ago, but currently it's got to be my 'VANTASTIC' Split/Bay Campervan Postcard. It's been really popular this summer.
Favourite thing you've ever created? Do you still have it, or did you sell/gift it?
I designed a digital pattern for a fabric swatch featuring my beloved black cat, called 'Multi Boofus'. It's just lovely colourful rainbow-bright squares, each with a silhouette of his face (digitally created from an Inktober drawing)... sadly The Boofus is no longer with us but it makes me smile whenever I look at it.
Random fact about yourself?
My very first job was as a cassette packer for New Age composer Mike Rowland.
What new craft would you love to try?
I've dabbled with lots of crafts and have done some short courses... I'm definitely up for more ceramics and lino printing.
Where can customers buy your products?
I don't have an online shop but you can contact me direct through my website www.beckycanham.com or find me at selected events.
Give a shout-out to a fellow artist or crafter you admire!
So many artists whose work I love but totally loving the contemporary paintings by Christopher Milham www.christophermilhamartist.co.uk
Name/Business
Becky - Weird Zebra Design
Describe your art/craft?
Self-designed quirky, colourful digital graphics... available products include postcards, notebooks and stickers.
How long have you been creating? How did you learn your craft or were you self-taught?
It all began many years ago in the mid 70s with my mum buying Altair Designs colouring books for me and my sisters; being hugely jealous of my oldest sister Nicola's Super Spirograph set; making play food from plasticine; possibly wearing too tight bobbles on my bunches; being an avid sticker collector; and crazing my mum to buy more felt pens every time she went to Norwich!!
As for the digital side, I created my first digital image of a torso at college in 1990 on a Macintosh and was hooked... but didn't actually own a computer of my own until many years later. I started working at a local website company in 2006... with just 3 of us in the entire office I was literally the art department creating maps, adverts, logos, icons etc etc...
What are your favourite art/craft 'tools of the trade'?
It's got to be my Serif Drawplus program.... sadly Serif products are no longer supported so at some point I will have to make the transition to another program... and my ASUS laptop with a lovely big screen and Nvidia GeForce graphics card.
Where is your creative space?
Inside my noggin, where my inner 7-year-old likes to play.... plus anywhere I can work with my laptop!!
What do you watch or listen to when you're creating?
OMG I love a playlist, have a great one called 'Feel Good Songs'... just puts me in a total happy place. The happier I am the more colourful my designs. I might have been slightly over caffeinated the day I gave my cat postcards rainbows for eyes!!
What's your best selling product?
Sales of my Accommodation Icons literally paid my bills over one winter a few years ago, but currently it's got to be my 'VANTASTIC' Split/Bay Campervan Postcard. It's been really popular this summer.
Favourite thing you've ever created? Do you still have it, or did you sell/gift it?
I designed a digital pattern for a fabric swatch featuring my beloved black cat, called 'Multi Boofus'. It's just lovely colourful rainbow-bright squares, each with a silhouette of his face (digitally created from an Inktober drawing)... sadly The Boofus is no longer with us but it makes me smile whenever I look at it.
Random fact about yourself?
My very first job was as a cassette packer for New Age composer Mike Rowland.
What new craft would you love to try?
I've dabbled with lots of crafts and have done some short courses... I'm definitely up for more ceramics and lino printing.
Where can customers buy your products?
I don't have an online shop but you can contact me direct through my website www.beckycanham.com or find me at selected events.
Give a shout-out to a fellow artist or crafter you admire!
So many artists whose work I love but totally loving the contemporary paintings by Christopher Milham www.christophermilhamartist.co.uk